Fieldstone Grave, Salem Church Cemetery,

Salem Community,

Ben Hill County, Georgia, 2006.

c. Brian Brown

Country churches often showcase a variety of available materials in the construction of headstones. This one, at Salem Baptist Church in northwestern Ben Hill County, was made from flint-like fieldstones and concrete, and is more elaborate than most.

Sycamore Farmhouse,

Sycamore, Turner County, Georgia, 2006.

c. Brian Brown

Sycamore, smaller neighbor to the Turner County seat of Ashburn, was incorporated in 1891, and still boasts quite a few early twentieth century farmsteads.

Farmhouse, Daisy Road,

Irwin County, Georgia, 2006.

c. Brian Brown

These contrasting views of the same farmhouse are good examples of the architecture typical to rural Georgia in the first decades of the twentieth century. These were more stylized than their humble counterparts, and generally were the domain of larger landowners and planters in the Wiregrass. Most survive because they remain in the original families, which often have strong ties to them as historical relics.